Cushing High School - Oiler Yearbook (Cushing, OK)

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Cushing i It is the purpose of this—The Mid-Century Vivacity— to picturize a typical year at Cushing High School and also to look back on Cushing’s first fifty years. The covered wagon caravan, the flow of oil, the smoke- stacks of refineries, the offices and business institutions— all have contributed their part to the Cushing of today. Our town as we know it today received its name from Marshall Cushing in the year 1891. It received the name shortly after the time that the post office was granted to this town. Cushing while still young had for its chief industry, that of farming; cotton being the outstanding product, along with cattle raising. Heading from left to right: 1. The churches of Cushing as they appeared in 1903. 2. One of the first homes to be built in Cushing. The home of the first school teacher. 3. Main Street, Old Town, looking west in the year 1900. 4. The Bittner and Alles Flour Mill and Gin as it existed in 1895. M WM-

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3irbt 50 y[ear£ It wasn't long, however, until, in the year 1912, when the first oil was discovered near Drumright, that Cushing gained for itself the fixed place which it holds today in the oil world. Prom then on Cushing continued growing—its banks, its churches, its schools, its railroads, its post office, its many business firms—until today it is one of the mosi thriving towns in all Oklahoma. In this 1950 Vivacity of Cushing High School we have presented a record, not only of individuals and our high school life as a whole, but also one of the town in which we live. If we have succeeded in showing the various in- terests of all the students and a brief flashback of the his- tory of Cushing, we feel that we have accomplished our aim. 5. Churches of Cushing today. 6. Cushing's post oifice which was opened for busi- ness on Nov. 1. 1935. 7. Street scene of Cushing taken at Christmas time. 8. Cushing's municipal swimming pool, built in the summer of 1949.